Making economic adjustment work: The politics of policy implementation

In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Band 22, Heft 3/4, S. 359-394

Abstract

This article identifies tentative lessons about successful political management of stabilization and structural adjustment policies in developing countries. The author concentrates in detail on how the governments of Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala managed the actual supports and opponents of these policies between 1982 and 1987, based on interviews with policy makers, official documents, and content analysis of media sources